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[Lat. torqueo to twist.] Her.: Wreathed, bent. (Said of a dolphin haurient, twisted into a form nearly resembling the letter S reversed.) tor'-quēş, subst. (Lat.) The same as TORQUE (q. v.). tor-re-a-dor', subst. [TORE ADOR.] Torqued. IMG:content-1250.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Metall.: The operation of roasting ores. 2. Pharm.: The drying roasting of drugs 4129 *tor-ren-tine, adj . [Eng. torrent; -ine.] Pertaining to or resembling a torrent; torrential. *tor-rět, s . [TURRIT.] tor-rey-ą, s. [Named after Dr. John Torrey, author of an American Flora.) Bot.: A genus of Taxaceæ. Evergreen gymnospermous trees from North America, China and Japan. Leaves in two ranks, linear or lanceolate; flowers diœcio us, the males solitary, the females in two or threes. Torreya laxifolia is called the Stinking Cedar, from the unpleasant smell when burnt. The kernels of T. nucifera yield an oil. Tör-ri-çěl-li-an, a. [See def.] Pertaining or relating to Torr i cell i, an Italian physicist and mathematician (1608-47), and a pupil of Galileo; used in the following compounds: Torr i cell i an-experiment, s. Physics: The experiment by which Torr i cell i (in 1643) ascertained the exact measure of the weight of the atmosphere. A gla tube (now known as the Torr i cell i an tube), about a yard long and a quarter of an inch internal diameter, is sealed at one end and filled with mercury. The aperture being closed by the thumb, the tube is inverted, the open end placed vertically in a small ve el of mercury, and the thumb removed. The column of mercury sinks till it comes to rest at a height which, at er the level of the sea, is about 30 inches above the mercury in the trough, leaving a space in the tube which is called the Torr i cell i an vacuum. The mer cury is raised in the tube by the pre ure of the atmosphere on the mercury in the trough. There is no contrary pre ure on the mercury in the tube, because it is closed. But if the end of the tube be metallic plate till they become friable to the fingers, opened, the atmosphere will pre equally inside IMG:content-1251.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Metall .: To roast or scorch, as metallic ores. 2. Pharm .: To dry or parch, as drugs, on a metallic plate till they become friable to the fingers or are reduced to any desired state.